[3] Before he ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (imina) was Nariakira-shinnō (成明親王).

Murakami's maternal uncle Fujiwara no Tadahira remained as the Sessho regent until 949.

After the death of Tadahira, there was no regent and although contemporaries praised Murakami as the emperor who governed the state directly, in reality the Fujiwara clan seized power and ruled Japan.

[1] This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) at Kyoto.

It is formally named Murakami no misasagi[12] Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.